Charles Morgan: 35 books

Includes the plays The River Line, The Flashing Stream and The Burning Glass Charles Morgan was a distinguished novelist before he moved onto stage drama, with his reputation as a major dramatist established by his first play, The Flashing Stream. Morgan was unique for combining the roles of...

Charles Morgan was the dramatic critic of The Times for most of the years between 1922 and 1939. The reviews for this small selection are taken from thousands written for The Times and from his weekly articles for The New York Times on the London theatre. Morgan was widely regarded as the most...

Charles Morgan, a confirmed atheist, argues that the Christian church does in fact have a vital message and could play a major role in modern society. However it insists of making itself inaccessible to modern people with its layers of mumbo jumbo and strange and unlikely beliefs. In this book he...

How To turn Pain Into Pleasure is a book aimed at people who are interested in pain management techniques or in meditation in general. It gives specific examples of how this simple practice has mitigated pain.The book goes on to explain what meditation is and how it works and also offers simple ways...

Excerpt from HOW TO SOLVE THE DRUG PROBLEM:2WHY DO PEOPLE USE ILLEGAL DRUGSIt often occurs to me that the politicians and policing agencies that try to fight the drug problem, who make laws against using certain substances and who endeavour to catch people, not only supplying them, but...

A young man struggles to find his way through his passion for the outdoors and the family cabin, while still satisfying his religious obligations that his beloved grandmother so endears. Ultimately, he must choose and the price he pays to understand it is the greatest of his life.

Originally published in 1935, this book charts the revolution from a banking to an industrial conception of currency which took place between 1922 and 1932. Having failed to stabilise the purchasing power of gold, General Strong stabilised the purchasing power of the dollar, an idea which was revived...

Originally published in 1931, this book was written at a time when the utility and value of gold was under great scrutiny. Global financial circles were discussing the necessity of reducing the price of gold, pressing for the return of Britain to a gold standard and imposing a managed currency. Against...

Kerry O’Day, a genius engineer, revered by his peers and employers, is forced to make a career change. Idiotically, he decides to go for a career in selling - a world of people persons where social skills are the passport to success. Alas, Kerry’s social skills hardly allow him to say good morning,...

What would happen if Olympic athletes were allowed to enhance themselves in whatever way they liked to improve their chances of winning? Mister Winner follows the journey of two people who do just that. Bunny ,a streetwise and gorgeous money hunter, tries to sell her fianc, Lynx, to Cavalisto Thyrax,...

She wasn't a famous person or even an infamous person. She wasn't a historic figure that poets write odes about. She wasn't a celebrity. She wasn't a politician and she never did anything to save the world. She was not the person that producers would be standing in line to make a movie about her life....

LISSY, the daughter of a black farmer in the Mississippi Delta, is surrounded by bigotry. It is a story enveloped by racial unrest. She dares to rise above it. Her roots are traced back to her Great-great-grandmother, a former slave named Sara Benten, whose diary inspires her to fight for what is right. Lissy finds love as well as freedom.

Charles Langbridge Morgan, playwright and novelist of English and Welsh parentage, author of The Gunroom. The main themes of his work were, as he himself put it, "Art, Love, and Death", and the relation between them. Themes range from the paradoxes of freedom, through passionate love seen from within and without, to the conflict of good and evil and the enchanted boundary of death.

“I didn’t set out to become a collector of your and your neighbors’ information. When I was growing up, nobody but egghead scientists talked about ‘data.’ It was the mechanical age, and I was a gadget geek, taking apart my cousin’s toys and trying to put them back together again. I was especially...